5. Coping with Grief

Question 1

grief trajectories are

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common trends in how people handle grief and adapt to loss

Question 1

grief trajectories are

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common trends in how people handle grief and adapt to loss

Question 2

The most common grief trajectories are

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Resilience

Recovery

Complicated or prolonged grief

Question 3

A recent qualitative study by (Lenferink, de Keijser, Piersma, & Boelen, 2018) examined grief trajectories in the relatives of long-term missing persons and found that

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most participants described trajectories that reflected the resilient or recovery trajectories

Question 4

those experiencing prolonged grief are likely to have different clinical needs to those whose grief follows

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resilient or recovery paths

Question 5

Early findings suggest that while prolonged grief is uniquely associated with greater interpersonal dependency, the resilience trajectory is associated with

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a more positive worldview and younger age

Question 6

A recent study by Mancini, Sinan, and Bonanno (2015) explored and identified predictors of grief trajectories in bereaved spouses. They focused on.

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person-related factors, perceptions/memories of their deceased spouse, and social factors

Question 7

Participants in (Mancini, Sinan, and Bonanno (2015) that were classified as resilient differed from those classified as prolonged grievers, such that resilient participants reported significantly

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Lower attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance;

Lower destructive detachment;

Greater emotional stability and healthy dependency;

Great ability to derive comfort from memories of their deceased spouse, yet a lower sense of a continuing bond;

Less loneliness and greater ability to disclose to others.

Question 8

Milic, Muka, Ikram, Franco, and Tiemeier (2017) reported both cross-sectional and longitudinal data on predictors of bereavement severity and persistence. The cross-sectional results found that

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females, those who lost a child, lower education and higher depressive symptoms were associated with greater severity. Longitudinally, at a 6-year follow up, baseline grief severity was the only significant predictor of grief persistence.